Traveller’s Comments (group member since Jan 14, 2015)

Traveller’s comments from the On Paths Unknown group.

Discussion thread for we Have Always Lived In The Castle Chapters 2, 3 and 4.

Yes, in Chapter 1, Mary Katherine goes to get groceries in town.

LOL, that's funny. :P

Ruth, for the books to 'count' they need to show a "date read" so I suspect you need to still go and set the "date read" parameter for the 3 or 4 books that don't show.
Go and look for them in "my books" and click under the "date read" column.

I'm sure you'll figure this part out as well. :)

Exactly, first you wonder if she's simply paranoid, and then when you do catch on that people might really be hostile to the Blackwoods, you start wondering why!

This is a completely vanilla read for me, and it's still the first day - so let's keep the discussion on the first chapter for now, shall we? I'll make some new "spoiler" threads soon. :)

For now, if we do want to refer to specifics from further on, there's always the spoiler tag function.

Nice to see you guys aboard! (And taking note of that, Disha! You sound pretty enthusiastic about the novel. Always nice to see. :) )

Ruth wrote: "Actually, I discovered [...] But, I figured it out. Yippee! :D
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*Me looks* You're on! Now to populate that shelf... ;)
It's always such a boost when one manages to figure something out by yourself, isn't it? Well done Ruth!

Ronald wrote: "Traveller wrote: "Roland to the Dark Tower Came - looks like you're turning into a knight in medieval armor, Ronald! How fitting! :)"

Ha!

I went ahead and updated the above lists to capture the e..."

Thank you! Well, there you really are a knight in shining armor! Both of you. Here, let me polish it for you! :D

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "According to the list over at the group, in 2012 they added:

1295. Barnes, Julian - The Sense of an Ending
1296. Egan, Jennifer - A Visit from the Goon Squad
1297. Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriag..."

I thought most of those are in my list, except for Jennifer Egan - but I've also been looking at various lists , so they're probably buzzing like bees in my head by now. :D

Thanks, all!

Roland to the Dark Tower Came - looks like you're turning into a knight in medieval armor, Ronald! How fitting! :)

Ronald wrote: "Awesome!

I was curious, maybe someone else was also, but here are the authors that show up more than 5 times, by frequency:

10 Times:
Coetzee, J.M.
Dickens, Charles

9 Times:
Woolf, Virginia

8 T..."

That's exactly what I was talking about when I said the list overrepresents some authors...

That looks absolutely awesome! Thanks so very much Ronald! In fact, it so much more useful than the very first list I posted, that I wish we could somehow put your list on top!

Ronald wrote: "I've got this list by author, and can paste that into here, but it's only for the 2010 list, so it's not quite apples to apples.

As that would take up a large chunk of screen space/comments to in..."

Unless someone is an a real hurry for it, I was going to do some Excel manipulations on the entire list and post them by author in alphabetical order, and then by year in chronological order. I'm kinda.. into that kind of thing, I enjoy playing with it, it's just that it's time consuming.

But if you already have it by author, go for it for the 1300 up to 2010 and post that, if you don't mind - we can always add the ones that came after. Then I'll use some of that placeholder space above, to post by year.

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "If you go to the 1001 site, you can sort the current list (2012 edition) by author; it's a clunky interface but you can at least see if a particular author is on the list:
..."

Thanks Amy, very useful.

Sigh, and here goes for more juggling. You know what? I'll do that another day - the current 'list' obsession is swallowing up all my time and I need to break out of it now.

Did anybody else also feel almost as if the narrator was just being paranoid at first?
At the start it felt a bit to me like a Robert Chambers story, where you're not sure if your narrator is giving you a skewed or even totally fictional version of reality.

Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote: "I I still thought it was a pretty great movie! .."

Hear, hear!

The exclusion of Shakespeare is totally incomprehensible; it's just crazy - plays or no.

Listen Ruth, are you using the "mobile view" of Goodreads? If so, that might explain your difficulties.

I've had a look at your shelves, and of course you know how to create shelves. So just for example, if you wrote in "crime" in the second block when you start the challenge, 4 books would appear as 'read' in your challenge, because you have read four books on your 'crime' shelf.

Yes, I have been looking for variations on the list, such as with dates and with the author's name written before the title, in which case it would have been MUCH easier to sort via author. My search continues. ;)

Okay, first click on "my books" on that bar at the top of your Goodreads page, and create whatever shelf you'd like to put your 1001 books into, if you haven't such a shelf already. Mine is 1001 books, but it can be "pumpkin" or "fiddlesticks" too, if you like.

Then click on this link: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

..and then, in the first box, you put the amount of books you want to read for the challenge - you can always change this amount later, so how about you put a conservative amount of say 250 or 300, and then in the box below that, you type in the name of that shelf - it should auto-fill if you type the first few characters exactly the same as the name of your shelf.

Then you should be part of the challenge, but yours will have zero books in it, unless you had already put books on that shelf.

How to put books on that shelf: Go into "my books" and search for the name of the book that should go into it, let's say "Alice in Wonderland" If you have "added" the book, it will appear, and you'll see there's a little green thing in the table next to the book- next to the dates read and so on where you can "add shelves" (The one right next to the book, mind) click on that and click on "fiddlesticks" or whatever the name of your shelf for the challenge was. That should put your book onto that shelf.

Now, if you look at the challenge, it should say you have one book in it, and if you click on the little bar that says "1 book", it will take you into the view where the books actually are.

Let me know if I left anything important out. :)

Ruth wrote: "I tried to set this up, used as a shelf name 1001, put different numbers in the box for how many books (why can't I say no idea?!), but it wouldn't accept me. Anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong? ."

Hmm, set what up, the challenge? What do you mean it won't 'accept' you? Let me go see if you're on.

mark wrote: "I like to mix it up. ..."

Then we're all in very good company! ;)

Yolande wrote: "On such a list, for myself, I would probably add every single play by Shakespeare :p but that falls more under authors whose works I want to complete. Virginia Woolf is another one of those. In the..."

Agreed. I would add at least most of them. I haven't gotten that far down on the list yet to see how many Shakespeare is included.

Mark wrote: "I finally saw the movie yesterday! Yes I know - but I wasnt that much bothered. And I must say, after reading the book I thought it was distinctly 'meh'. If I wanted to criticise anything about the..."

Totally agreed with Whatney being too whitewashed - I found that rather incomprehensible.

But I will still maintain that to a large extent you would obviously have felt a lack of suspense because you read the book first. ;) I saw the movie first, and I did feel suspense. And I'm quite a ... jaded cinema goer.